Wednesday, February 19, 2025
Monitor with right-of-way not spotted right away
Who gives way on footbridge, Yellow-spotted Monitor or unspotted bird watcher? Naturally, dinkum locals have right-of-way. I step aside, Spotty ambles forward, glances to the left and tumbles clumsily to ground about 30cm below. Dawdles off without a backward look. All in a morning's stroll through Cape Pallarenda Conservation Park in Townsville.
Sunday, February 2, 2025
Peek-a-boo, yoo-hoo, toodle-oo, tally-hoo
Four days of nonstop rain in tropical North Queensland and cabin fever setting in. Calls for something light and bright to break the monsoon misery. So, harking to a sunnier, funnier day: Galah peek-a-boo
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